Date: Sun, 15 Oct 1995 18:44:46 -1000 From: Thom Shanken Message-Id: Organization: Delphi (info@delphi.com email, 800-695-4005 voice) Subject: Nicole Warder of Kookaburra Kites Nicole Warder died today. Too young. Too soon. For those of you who attended the AKA Convention in Tulsa, she was the young woman in the Kookaburra Kites booth at the fly market with an "ear" ring in her eyebrow (she always liked that description). Nicki returned from Tulsa to discover that she had leukemia and immediately began chemotherapy. The prognosis was good, and her spirits were high. No one expected the brain hemorrhage she experienced last night, and today she is gone. Nicki, as well as her family, wouldn't want a fuss, so with my own loss of words I would like to borrow the signature line of John Gabby Jr.; "Think kindly thoughts." Keep looking up, Thom (thomshanken@delphi.com) = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 07:11:04 -1000 From: griebeno@athena.mit.edu (Kai Griebenow) Message-Id: <45u3n8$d5p@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Subject: Re: Nicole Warder of Kookaburra Kites I am very sad and I am not finding the right words to say... I am feeling with the family. I met Nickie and her family recently while attending the Seneca Lake Whale Watch where we also had a kite-demonstration. It was very nice, I enjoyed the hospitality and the good spirits of all people I met. As I wrote in a recent article for the KONE Flypaper I met a lot of new friends, Nicki was one of them. Last Friday I had a telephone conversation with her sister and mother. All seemed to go well within the expectations of a serious and dangerous illness. I heard that Nicki's spirits where good and that she was fighting through the therapy. The message of her death came sudden and unexpected. I feel very empty. I hope that everyone who did know Nickie will be able to overcome this sudden tremendous loss of a young life. Right now, I don't know how...... Kai = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =